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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

Anais Nin

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Novelist
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
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Vision
Feeling
Feelings
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.
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... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
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New York has an electronic heart.
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Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.
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I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
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Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
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